Family Fun Part Two

   
     We are finishing up Our Family and Scholastic Home theme tomorrow.  Some of the activities that I'm posting were actually completed last week, but I just didn't get them up!  Some were started last week, but were finished today.  I have really enjoyed teaching this theme!  There is so much more that I wanted to do, but we are out of time!

Our letter was last week was the letter H.  We circled the letter  H in our poem, practiced writing the letter H, read a H book, listed H words, and made our hen page for our Alphabet Scrapbook.

Our Buccaneer of the Week last week.  She brought in Olivia to read as her favorite book.  I just happened to have an Olivia for her to hold while I read the story to the class. :)

She stays with another teacher after school, but likes to come visit and play in the classroom after school.  Pretty as a princess!

We read What Grandmas Can't Do and then listed all the things that Grandma can do.

This was another activity from the Family Fun Pack.  They painted white bags in an AB pattern.

We had to wait for the bags to dry, so that is why we finished up today.  They chose 5 items that they wanted to take to Grandma's.  They cut them out and put them in the bag.  We listed them as a class, and then we filled out their individual list.

This is actually a Mother's Day book, but I like to read it when we are discussing brothers and sisters.  The story is about a boy who has a little sister that he is jealous of.  He ends up taking care of her: reading her a story, taking her to the store, and giving her a bath and realizes she's not so bad after all.  His mother explains to him that he use to be little just like her and did the same things she is doing now.  It really is a cute, sweet story!

After reading the story, we did a Venn diagram of how many brothers and sisters we had.  I took this picture at the end of the day, that is why there are chairs in the picture.  We also did a brother/sister bar graph.  We learned there are several different ways we can graph.  I usually do this graph with the class, but I wanted to give credit to Kim Adsit because I did use her lettering.

I plan on showing all of our great home activities tomorrow!

Family Fun

     Whew!  This chick is wiped out!  We had Grandparent Day at school, which was totally awesome, but I'm exhausted!  I'm going to do a short post of some of the things we've been doing with our family and I'll post Grandparent Day tomorrow.  I don't think I have the energy to go through the pictures tonight!  I would like to highly recommend Kim Adsit Family Fun Math and Literacy Packet! Many of these activities came from there. You can purchase it  here.  Best $8.00 I've spent in a long time!

This is a great book to read and discuss families!  First, we read the book, then we shared who are the members of our family and then we drew pictures of our families.

This was in Kim Adsit's Family Fun packet.  She had a picture of the tree map and then I made one of my own.  We discussed the things that families have, can, are, and like to.  I loved their answers!  We had many more, but since they were writing as well, we narrowed it down to the three we liked best.

Popcorn word book for the week- Family Fun.  The popcorn words for the week are we, can. You can print it off here.

Here are some pictures from our Family Foot Project. These will also go in our Creation Books.  We haven't put the words on yet, but it will say God made man.  I didn't take pictures of all of them yet because my memory card was almost full.  I'm going to take more next week!  I love the baby foot on this one! :)

Love the painted toe nails and daddy has a newspaper and sports!

The dog's paw was included! LOVE it!!!! :)

This was one of the activities in the packet.  Our nursery rhyme was Old Woman who Lived in a Shoe, so this was perfect!  They actually did a great job with these!  I love that one of the boys put all girls in his shoes.  He said he had all boys that lived at his house already!

We are almost finished with our Creation books!  This is God made the fish and birds.  I know there is not a fish on the page, but we didn't have time to do any extra pages! :)

     Now I'm off for some relaxation and Grey's Anatomy!  I'll have Grandparent's Day up tomorrow!

Family Foot Project

     We are learning All About Me this week in class and next week we will be learning about our families. Instead of doing a family tree or banner, I am having them do a family foot project.  I thought this would be something fun and different for them to do.  I can't wait to see what they bring back to share!  I'm also using this page in our Creation books.  This page will represent God Made People. I've included the letter that I am sending home and will put in pictures of the completed project next week.  Family Foot Project Letter